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Arbëreshë

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Organized in collaboration with Prof. Giovanni Braico (NYU). Co-hosted by the Albanian Institute. The Arbëreshë (or Italo-Albanian) people are the descendants of the Albanian refugees who fled to Italy between the 14th and 18th centuries as a consequence of the Ottoman invasion of the Balkans. The Arbëreshë are currently found in scattered villages around Southern Italy and Sicily, and zealously preserve their…

How Populism Transforms Democracy: European Seminar Series

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

As part of the European Seminar Series, Nadia Urnamati will discuss how Populism transforms Democracy. All sessions will take place at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 3rd Floor East, Room 324, 53 Washington Square South 3rd Floor East, New York, NY 10012. Light fare will be served.

European Seminar Series

Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (NYU) 53 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor East, New York, United States

Nadia Urbinati: How Populism Transforms Democracy From the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies. 

BOOK TALK. ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS AND OTHER STORIES BY MAXIM OSIPOV

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City, NY, United States

A book talk with author Maxim Osipov on his story collection Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories (NYRB, April 2019). Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia’s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety…

Critique 13/13 Seminar

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Horkheimer and Adorno with Axel Honneth and Bernard E. Harcourt To RSVP, please click here. Seminar session on the early Frankfurt School with Professors Axel Honneth and Bernard E. Harcourt discussing Max Horkheimer's 1937 essay, "Traditional and Critical Theory," and Theodor Adorno's 1931 essay, "The Actuality of Philosophy." The seminar Critique 13/13 during the 2019-2020 academic year returns to brilliant texts in critical…

Leopold Bloom in Purgatory

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Dante and Joyce In collaboration with NYU's Glucksman Ireland House and Medieval and Renaissance Center. A lecture by Patrizia Grimaldi-Pizzorno, Università di Siena In Ulysses 13, Joyce encrypts key allusions to Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio. To understand the metapoetic significance of the female protagonist Gerty MacDowell and the reason why she is lame, one must in fact turn to Canto XXVIII where…

The Alchemy of Italy

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City, NY, United States

Exploring Italy's Cultural DNA Presented by the American Italian Cultural Roundtable Commendatore Aldo Mancusi, President In association with The Enrico Caruso Museum The Alchemy of Italy Exploring Italy's Cultural DNA A presentation by Carla Gambescia Author of La Dolce Vita University: An Unconventional Guide to Italian Culture from A to Z Please note: This event is only open to members…

DISCUSSION: MODERNISMS IN NATIONAL CONTEXTS: PERSPECTIVES ON MODERN ART FROM TURKEY, IRAN, AND INDIA

Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York City, NY, United States

Speakers Duygu Demir, PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sonal Khullar, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Washington; and Hamed Yousefi, filmmaker and PhD candidate in art history, Northwestern University, will present their perspectives on artistic modernism in Turkey, India, and Iran, respectively, in the 1960s and ’70s. Exploring the political context…

30 Years on: Achievements & Challenges since the Peaceful Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City, NY, United States

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the General Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York present a lecture by Marianne Birthler, former Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives, on “30 Years on: Achievements and Challenges Since the Peaceful Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall.” The lecture will be followed by a conversation between Marianne Birthler and David Gill, Consul…